Dinosaur Facts - American Museum of Natural History
Basic Dinosaur Facts. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that have lived on Earth for about 245 million years. In 1842, the English naturalist Sir Richard Owen coined the term Dinosauria, derived from the Greek deinos, meaning “fearfully great,” and sauros, meaning “lizard.” Dinosaur fossils have been found on all seven continents.
Dinosaur Bones - American Museum of Natural History
Fossils are excavated from many environments, including ancient riverbeds and lakes, caves, volcanic ash falls, and tar pits. Fossils are classified as either body fossils or trace fossils. Body fossils were parts of the organism, such as bones or teeth. Trace fossils are all other types of fossils, including foot impressions, burrows, and dung.
Dinosaurs - American Museum of Natural History
Article Dinosaur Bones Discover what scientists can learn by studying fossils and how these fossils are stored in the Museum’s collections. Article Dinosaur Eggs Fossilized eggs have helped scientists understand how dinosaurs reproduced and cared for their young.
How to find dinosaur fossils - American Museum of Natural History
WATANABE: So this is a piece of bone from a duck-billed dinosaur. [Next to an image of the piece of bone Watanabe was holding, the image of the duck-billed dinosaurs on display at the Museum. Watanabe reappears on screen. WATANABE: Once you find some dinosaur fossils [A magnifying glass moves around next to Watanabe, revealing fossils.]
Dinosaur Exhibits | American Museum of Natural History
The fourth floor halls of the Museum feature approximately 100 dinosaur specimens, a tiny fraction of the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the world. The Titanosaur grazes the Wallach Orientation Center's approximately 19-foot-high ceilings, and, at 122 feet, is just a bit too long for its new home.
Dinosaurs and Fossils Videos - American Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs and Fossils Paleontologists dig for Jurassic dinosaur fossils Visit the Morrison Formation, one of the sites of many famous dinosaur discoveries, with paleontologists. Dinosaurs and Fossils Mosasaurus: Lizard King of the Ancient Ocean The massive extinct lizard that dominated Cretaceous oceans, but was not a dinosaur.
How are dinosaur fossils discovered and collected? | AMNH
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Paleontology for Kids: OLogy | AMNH
Visit OLogy, the Museum's science website for kids, to find free dinosaur games and activities. Learn how to draw what a dinosaur looked like, match eight dinosaur fossil photos with their descriptions, reconstruct and identify a fossil skeleton, and much more!
Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries - American Museum of ...
2005年5月14日 · At first, dinosaur hunters used only such tools as a keen eye, shovels, and compasses. Today, scientists also rely on everything from satellite technology to scanning electron microscopes. Prepare to take a journey of discovery into the exciting world of modern paleontology. New dinosaur fossils are being discovered faster than ever before.
Paleontology: Fossil Identification - AMNH
All are fossils except, technically, the T. rex tooth, which is actually a cast of a real tooth. The rugose corals (also known as solitary or horn corals) are very often mistaken for dinosaur teeth but are older than the oldest dinosaurs, having gone extinct around 250 million years ago (the oldest known dinosaurs are around 230 million years old).